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William Lyon Mackenzie
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1495.... Advocate. The first edition appeared on May 18, 1824. The sole purpose of this paper was to sway the opinions of the voters in the next election.
On June 8, 1826, a group of fifteen, young, well connected Tories disguised themselves as Indians, and broke into Mackenzie’s York office in broad daylight. They smashed his printing press, then threw it into the bay. The Tories did nothing to compensate him, so it was clear that they were involved. Mackenzie ntook them to court, and seeing that their “disguise” had been seen through, they offered Mackenzie .....
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Charles Dickens 4
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1377.... #1). Dickens gave plenty of aid to this plea by the works that he wrote, which provided progress to the battle for the poor. All of Dickens’ novels show the battle between upper and lower classes. He portrays the lower class in a respectable way, but he portrays the proletarian people in such a dishonorable way that the reader in some books despises them. One example of this is in Tale of Two Cities. This book shows how most people were poor during the French Revolution. The aristocracy consisted of about 3 percent of the population, and everyone else was poor i .....
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Charles Manson: Orgins Of A Madman
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2727.... his
mother and rented a room for himself. He supported himself with odd jobs
and petty theft. His mother turned him into the juvenile authorities, who
had him sent to "Boys Town," a juvenile detention center, near Omaha,
Nebraska. Charles spent a total of three days in "Boys Town" before
running away. He was arrested in Peoria, Illinois for robbing a grocery
store and was then sent to the Indiana Boys School in Plainfield, Indiana,
where he ran away another eighteen times before he was caught and sent to
the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. Manson never .....
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Thomas Alva Edison's Life: A Light Goes On
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 954.... only person that saw his gift was his mother (Feldman and Ford 206). His mother help taught him how to read. By the age of 12 he was reading Gibbon's 'Decline and more books of that nature. He had also begun to do chemistry experiments and had his own laboratory in his father's basement (Day and McNeil 231).
Second, the world revolves his fulfillment's. But his fulfillment's didn't come easy. He was newsboy on the Grand Trunk railroad. Between the trips from Port Huron to Detroit he would publish his own paper called The Herald. On day, he had two arms full of papers an .....
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Louis XIV
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 971.... revoked Edict of Nantes. Then he
forbid anyone to practice Calvinism. To the people of France this showed great
strength on the part of Louis, the fact that he could keep he kept everyone in
France inline at the same time. everyone in France obeyed him because he was
such a grand, rich, fair king. Louis got into many wars with other countries
over the stupidest things, when Charles II were to die with no kids, he made
he offered to make Louis's grandson the sole beneficiary of the vast inheritance
to be left behind, Louis Accepted the the offer out of pure greed, but that .....
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Sheyann Webb
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 440.... a tooth on scattered bird shot. A restaraunt owner set up a shooting match with the well known sharpshooter, Frank Butler. Annie shot all 25 birds while Frank shot only 24. Later, Frank would say that he lost two things to Annie that day: the match and his heart.
Annie and Frank went on the road as a team. Annie wanted a fancy name, so she settled on Oakley, a suburb outside of Cincinnati.Annie loved showbiz. She liked to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. When the Butler and Oakley team joined the Sell's Brother Circus, Frank stopped shooting and became Annie .....
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Story Of J Robert Oppenhiemer
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 710.... deemed Top Secret, he would still know. That was all he believed he needed. He was wrong.
He dwindled in his memories. It started like the soft but noticeable sound of white noise on the radio, but soon grew into voices. He began constantly hearing the dreadful and horrible screams as if he was there, seeing the great white light. He pictured himself as a god, a horrible Osiris that sat on top of Mount Fuji, claiming the lives of thousands and thousands, trying to drag them with him to Hades. What had he done on his path to greatness? How could something he felt so ri .....
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Neil Armstrong
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 785.... The objectives
of the mission were:
A. (Main) Rendezvous and dock with Gemini Agena target vehicle (GATV)
and conduct EVA operations.
B. (Secondary) Rendezvous and dock in the 4th revolution. Perform
docked-vehicle maneuvers, Evaluate systems and conduct 10 experiments.
The mission was set to launch on March 15, 1966. Due to minor problems with the
spacecraft and launch vehicle hardware the launch was delayed one day. The
launch was successful. Because of problems with the spacecraft control system,
the crew was forced to undock after approximately thirty minutes. .....
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